Peter Overton Taking ‘The Little Engine That Could’ Approach To His New Job

Recently appointed Channel Nine weekday news reader Peter Overton has declared he has no intention of turning into Eddie McGuire, despite the gobsmacking parallels between the two men as pointed out by the Daily Telegraph. Both work at Channel Nine! Both started as sports reporters! Both have been promoted during some point of their career! Both have doodles! That last one was mine, not the Daily Telegraph’s, but I ask you… coincidence?

Thankfully, Peter Overton has no desire to become Eddie Everywhere.

“I don’t aspire to be CEO,” Overton told The Daily Telegraph with a wry smile.

I could actually feel the wryness of that quote when I read it, you know.

As for Peter’s actual new job, how’s he planning on approaching it?

“The six o’clock news is a key program for the network but you also go in there and just give it your best. Yes, there are nerves, of course. Can I do it? I think I can,” Overton said.

You keep telling yourself that as you chug-chug-chug your way up the proverbial hill that is newsreading at Channel Nine, Peter, and you’ll do just fine. Until you are inevitably gang-boned.

In regards to Mark Ferguson, the man whose job Peter Overton is taking over, Peter has this to say.

Overton is yet to speak to Ferguson but says he’s “empathetic”.

“It will be a difficult time for him but when the time comes we will sit down together and will work for the team.”

Yes, I’d imagine given what his wife famously went through with Channel Nine (and Channel Seven), Peter Overton is well aware of what a difficult time Mark Ferguson’s in the midst of…

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